Velocipede



(No Model.)

R. G. BRITTON.

VBLOGIPEDB. No. 353,917. Patented Deo. 7, 1886.

i UNrTED ,STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RODNEY GEORGE BRITTON, OF SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT.

VELOCIPEDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,917,` dated December 7, 1886.

Application filed April l2, 1886. Serial No. 198,587. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, RODNEY GEORGE BRIT- TON, of Springfield, in the county of Windsor,

' of the State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Velocipedes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following speciicatlon, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a front end view, of a tricycle77 provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

The drawings show the invention as applied to the driving-wheel cranks, such invention being for the purpose of adjusting the foot- Iests or pedals relatively to the seat of the rider, as may be required for different persons, according to the length of their legs, a person having legs longer than those of another requiring the foot-rests or pedals to be adjusted farther from the seat, in order to enable him to work the cranks to proper advantage and with ease to himself.

In said drawings, A represents a tricycle, of which a is the seat, b the body, c c the real` Wheels, d the steering-wheel, B the supporting-frame of such wheel, and c c the handles of its frame, the said frame being pivoted in the usual manner to the body b. The driving-cranks of the wheel-axle are shown at C and C. There is pivoted on the wrist of each of such cranks C one ot' two bars or pitman, D, which at its upper end slides freely and loosely on a guide-rod, E, applied to or arranged with the frame B in manner as represented. This pitman is to be so adapted to the guide-rod as to not only be able to Amove 'freely upward and downward thereon, but to man in its lower part, and thc foot-rest slides on the pitman and is fastened thereto by a screw, g, that goes through it and screws into one of the said holes.

From the above it will be seen that a rider, sitting astride upon the seat and having his feet on the two pedals or foot-rests, can work the cranks so as to revolve their wheels, the said cranks turning inthe two pitmen and the latter swinging forward and backward and moving upward and downward in the meantime.

I would remark that my invention is applicable to various of the classes of velocipedes in which a wheel or wheels are operated by the feet of the rider applied to pedals or cranks, whether any such velocipedes have two, three, or Amore wheels.

I do not claim, in connection with a velocipede, slotted rods movable in guides and pivoted to the wrists of its cranks and having their slots and the adjustable pedals applied thereto arranged wholly above the crankwrists, in which case the pedals cannot be cX- tended either above or below the cranks, as with my improvement they can be, for adapting the vehicle to persons of different sizes.

I claim- The combination, with a velocipcde, of the two pitmen D, applied to the wrists of its cranks C, and extending both above and below such wrists and provided with pedals E, adjusta ble on such pitmen lengthwise thereof to positions either above or below the crankwrists, each of such pitmen at its upper end being supported by a guide-rod, E, orits equivalent, so asy to slide and swing laterally thereon under the movement ofthe crank of such pitmen, as speciied.

RODNEY GEORGE BRITTON.

Witnesses:

JEROME W. PIERCE, MERRILL L. LAWRENCE. 

